Year 5 Update Week 18
Wednesday 22nd January- 9.15- 10.15 am: Chinese New Year Assembly
Thursday 23rd January- Chinese Cultural Activity Day
Friday 24th January- Chinese New Year Holiday (school finishes at 3 pm)
China Cultural Activity Day- children can come to school on Thursday 23rd in traditional/ casual clothes in New Year colours.
Children who are involved in the Chinese New Year performances- parents will be receiving an e-notice from the Mandarin team so please keep a look out for this.
Cross Country trials will be held during the first week back to school after the Chinese New Year holiday.
After such a successful and enjoyable market day in December, Year 5 have been busy this week counting up the money raised by each business as well as reflecting on the unit. The children worked incredibly hard to design, produce, advertise and run a business and many valuable skills were gained along the way. There was such a wonderful atmosphere to market day last term and the children were thrilled with how successful the the unit was over all. They overcame a number of challenges which they may have encountered throughout the unit and built strong, hard working relationships with their business members.
Thank you to everyone for all of your hard work, support and energy last term- it was a brilliant experience for the children.
It has been lovely to have the children back after the holidays, all excited to see their friends and ready for the new term. Many stories from holidays have been shared as well as setting ourselves goals for 2020! The children have been thinking about what they would like to see more of and less of this year to support them this year.
Central Idea :
Energy can be converted and transformed to support everyday life.
- Transformation of energy (function)
- Renewable and non-renewable energy (connection)
- Sustainable energy use in everyday life (causation)
Central Idea
Multiplication and Division are related and are used to solve problems.
Central Idea
Manipulation of shape and space takes place for a particular purpose.
Writing Focus:
To get information across to a reader in an engaging but clear way using various structures depending on the purpose
Congratulations to these children for receiving Golden Book certificates in the past weeks!
5H – Carter Roessel & Louise Man
5W – Ying Ling Wong, Anna Netz & Lianne Tai
5Y – Cassy Wu & Charlotte Wan
- Read the Weekly Update
- Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
- Spelling – each week the children are sent home their 10 personal words that they need to learn for the week. Please, can a parent (or responsible adult) support the children by...testing them (written or oral), getting them to put their words into interesting sentences (written or oral), discussing the meanings of the words, thinking about synonyms and antonyms of that word, discussing words with a similar meaning etc.
- Reading – levelled home readers will be starting to come home soon. The children will be choosing levelled readers based on their own ability and are expected to read each night for at least 20mins at home with a parent. The children need to record their reading in their Reading Journals and parents can you please sign your child’s journal each night. Journals need to be returned to school each morning to be checked and will come home each evening (except Friday). Children may use Big Universe twice a week (only) as their choice of home reading.
- Mandarin Home Learning– All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.
Thought of the week
